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2010
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Dec. 30
Print Edition for the week of
Dec. 30 - Jan. 5, 2011
Vol. 20, No. 17
Savage Love
Love Is...
by Dan Savage
Film/TV
Bore Me, Michael Cera
I Regret That PR Departments Murdered the Interview as an Art Form
by Paul Constant
Anatomy of a Joke
I Regret Agreeing to Write 400 Words from the Perspective of Kim Cattrall's Vagina
by Lindy West
Concessions
The Only Thing I Don't Hate Is Hating
by Lindy West
Art House
My Regrets
by Charles Mudede
I, Anonymous
I Regret Making You Eat Your God
by Anonymous
Music
My Personal Year in Music 2010
If the Thought Strikes You While Reading This "Why Should I Care?" Congratulations!
by Derek Erdman
Up & Coming
This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties
by Stranger Staff
Fucking in the Streets
The Year in Regrets
by Eric Grandy
Data Breaker
Regrets? Not So Much
by Dave Segal
It's a Hit
No Regrets About the Wealth of Great DJ Podcasts
by Michaelangelo Matos
Sound Check
2010 Regrets: The Spirit of Eazy-E
by Trent Moorman
My Philosphy
The Year in Local Hiphop Regrets
by Larry Mizell Jr.
The Homosexual Agenda
New Year's Eve!
by Adrian Ryan
Theater
Je Ne Regrette Rien!
Except for French Playwright Yasmina Reza, Queen of Mediocrity
by Brendan Kiley
Visual Art
In a World Ruined by Massive Action
The Art Book of 2010 Is
Failure
by Jen Graves
Books
Reading Regret, Writing Regret
Jonathan Safran Foer and Michael Chabon Map the Pain of Abandoned Worlds
by Paul Constant
Food & Drink
Reader Review Regrets
RIP or Don't Let the Door Etc.:
Stranger
Readers on the Departed Restaurants of 2010
by Stranger Staff
News
What They Really Think of Us
Subjects of
The Stranger
's News Coverage Regret a Lot of the Things We've Said About Them in the Last Year
by Tim Burgess, Elizabeth Campbell, Tim Eyman, Mike Heavey, Rob McKenna and Tom Rasmussen
Public Editor
A Critical Overview of
The Stranger
by A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)
Maakies
by Tony Millionaire
Underworld
by Kaz
Control Tower
2011: What's In, What's Out
by Mistress Matisse
I Love Television
The Dumbest Things I Wrote All Year
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Last Days
The Week in Review
by David Schmader
Slog
Scalia: Women, Gays Aren't Citizens Who Deserve Equal Protection
by Dominic Holden
Those Naked Scenes
by Charles Mudede
Hello I Love You: New Restaurants 2010
by Bethany Jean Clement
Goodnight, Spaaaaaaaace!
by Paul Constant
What Is Innovation?
by Jen Graves
Nerds! The Time Has Come For You To Judge Me!
by Mary P. Traverse
Survey Finds Support in Seattle for Later Bar Hours, But McGinn's Path Remains Blocked in Olympia
by Cienna Madrid
Every Sea Monkey Needs a Mother and a Father
by Dominic Holden
What Women Do When Alone With A Salad
by Charles Mudede
Lunchtime Quickie: Move Over Shake Weight...
by Kelly O
Raw Calling People Shows a Lack of Taste
by Charles Mudede
Interview on WTTW
by Dan Savage
Christine O'Donnell Is Not a Witch
by Dan Savage
Penguins These Days!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Fuck Tuition, It's "Net Cost" That Really Matters
by Goldy
Get Your Ass Off the Couch: Foreign Films, Scientists, and Basketball Teams
by David Trujillo
Grim's on Capitol Hill: Is It or Is It Not "Steampunk"?
by Bethany Jean Clement
Jones Soda Gets Inappropriate
by David Schmader
How Many More Children Must Die to Keep Crosscut Alive?
by Goldy
This Old Phone Number
by Dan Savage
Dreaming the Imperials
by Jen Graves
"Where can I recycle my old cell phone and iPod?"
by Megan Seling
Sharks, Cocaine, and Dousings of Gasoline
by Bethany Jean Clement
Traffic Report
by Grant Brissey
Dear Person Who Sent Me Officewatch Facsimile Salutations: Thank You
by Grant Brissey
ACLU Says Metro Ban on Political Ads Is "Illegal"
by Cienna Madrid
The Leaders of Sad Pakistan Can Learn Something From Robert Mugabe's Wife
by Charles Mudede
Bowdlerizing
Huckleberry Finn
by Paul Constant
Hell Hath No Fury Like a Bieber Fan Scorned
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Scenes from Sunday
by Charles Mudede
Jamie Kilstein Is Funny
by Dan Savage
Kevin Smith Had a Big Couple Days on Twitter
by Paul Constant
What I Did Over Xmas Vacation
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Local GOP Operative Todd Hermann Puts the Twit Into Twitter
by Goldy
Religion Poisons Everything
by Dan Savage
What Is the Deal With that Annoying Band/Couple on the Hyundai Commercials!?!
by Grant Brissey
Musical Crime in Alaska
by Charles Mudede
Jobs for the People!
by Charles Mudede
Police: Middle Schooler Fondled!
by Dan Savage
Virginia Textbooks Claim Blacks Fought For Confederacy, Slavery Not Cause of War, Riddled With Other Factual Errors
by Dan Savage
Guess Who Might Be Running for President*
by Paul Constant
Jesus's Body Had Hepatitis A
by Paul Constant
Seattle Should Support New York's Ali Forney Center
by Dan Savage
Gregoire Calls on Legislators to Let State Universities Set Higher Tuition Rates
by Eli Sanders
The Morning News
by David Schmader
Those Rodents
by Charles Mudede
Disgust = Virtue
by Brendan Kiley
A Terrible Idea for a Bookmark
by Paul Constant
How Did Moving Work Out for Elliott Bay Book Company?
by Paul Constant
New, Non-traditional Books from Jonathan Safran Foer and Michael Chabon
by Paul Constant
Open Homosexual Dances With Little Boy...
by Dan Savage
Police Beat: "It's a Crack Thing"
by Charles Mudede
What's Ahead in 2011
by Dominic Holden
This Lady Has More Mouth than My Ex-Wife
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Stupid, Stupid Baby: Little Doctor No
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Putting Up
by Dan Savage
Justin Bieber in
Vanity Fair
!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
That Debt Ceiling Thing?
by Charles Mudede
The Continuing Trials of Belarus Free Theater
by Brendan Kiley
The Horror! The Horror!
by Paul Constant
Kids Say the Most Face-Punchiest Things
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Color Spit Group
by Jen Graves
Versailles to Become A Luxury Hotel
by Jen Graves
The "High Tuition/High Financial Aid" Model Only Works If You Provide High Financial Aid
by Goldy
Fuck Hamas! Fuck Israel!
by Charles Mudede
Here, Let Me Solve the Entire Washington State Budget Mess in Three Easy Steps
by Eli Sanders
RIP Medina the Sloth Bear
by Megan Seling
Dept. of Less Successful Holiday Displays
by Dominic Holden
It Gets Better: Rebecca Drysdale
by Dan Savage
Where the Former Seattle Post-Intelligencer Employees Are Now
by Eli Sanders
Sprouts: Not Actually Good for You
by Dominic Holden
Sounds Like Belarus Free Theater Snuck Away From Their Home Dictatorship and Made It to NYC
by Brendan Kiley
Illegal Immigrants, Black Presidents, Showering With Homos, Islamic Community Centers, Blacks Who Aren't Presidents, Americans Having Access to Health Care...
by Dan Savage
Gun-Crazy Country
by Charles Mudede
Any Idiot Can Write
by Paul Constant
Glenn Beckwatch
: Glenn Beck Recommits to Being Glenn Beck
by Paul Constant
Another Way to Help Erase Washington's Budget Shortfall: Legalize and Tax Marijuana
by Eli Sanders
In Case You Missed It
by Dan Savage
Beebs and Gomez Sittin' in a Tree...
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Today from the Random Art Gallery of the Internet
by David Schmader
Gary Larson's Kids Look Funny
by Paul Constant
Lunchtime Quickie: Update: The Man With The Golden Voice
by Kelly O
Deep Thought
by Christopher Frizzelle
Lunchtime Punditry: "It's like Marrakesh over there."
by Paul Constant
The Reading Party's Special Guests Tomorrow Night
by Christopher Frizzelle
Republicans Don't Read
by Paul Constant
A Map of 2011 in Books
by Paul Constant
The Last Poll I Will Publish in 2010; the Most Important Poll I Will Publish in 2010
by Megan Seling
A Newspaper Is Not a Christmas Card
by Eli Sanders
Scenes from the Beautiful Struggle
by Charles Mudede
SL Letter of the Day: A Few Things...
by Dan Savage
The Many Animated Emotions of James Van Der Beek
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Another Reason for You to Dislike Me: I Didn't Think
Toy Story 3
Was All that Great
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Downtown Hotel Fire, as Seen from 7th Ave
by Eli Sanders
It Is Not Almost Two Thousand and Eleven
by Paul Constant
More From the City of Portland
by Charles Mudede
"Portland Is Where Young People Go to Retire"
by David Schmader
Currently Hanging
: Troy Gua's
Pissing Contest
by Jen Graves
'Nibbus Maximus'
by Aaron Huffman
Apple and Google Continue to Fight Over Newsstand Bragging Rights
by Paul Constant
2011: The Year of 7 Billion
by Anthony Hecht
Ho ho ho, oh wait . .
by Chicago Fan
If I Had a Top Ten List for 2011, This Would Be On It
by Paul Constant
Flickr Photo of the Day
by Aaron Huffman
Woman Killed By Clothes
by Charles Mudede
Man Takes a Picture of His Killer
by Charles Mudede
The Next Reading Party at the Sorrento Is Wednesday Night
by Christopher Frizzelle
Move, Run, Win
by Dan Savage
No, You Are Not Entitled to Free Parking Spaces, Free Streets, Free Traffic Lights, Etc. and So Forth
by Dominic Holden
The Morning News
by David Schmader
Another Reason for Seattle Theater Artists to Hate New York
by Brendan Kiley
Does Sarah Palin Support DADT Repeal?
by Paul Constant
It's Official-ish
by Bethany Jean Clement
Senator Kohl-Welles Backpedals on Her Promise to Repeal Tunnel Cost Overruns Language
by Eli Sanders
"A Large Fox Tends to Have Great Confidence."
by Lindy West
SL Letter of the Day: Soldiering On
by Dan Savage
Mormon Underpants Central
by Paul Constant
Nerd Cred: The Reckoning
by Mary P. Traverse
Important Question: With Maharaja Closed, Where Will All the Kids Who Can't Get Into the Hunter Gatherer Lodge Hang Out and Cause Trouble?
by Grant Brissey
God Hates Turds
by Dan Savage
Drowning Our Sorrows?
by Dan Savage
Only One Seattle Legislator Is Vowing to Take on the Tunnel Cost Overruns Language: Jeanne Kohl-Welles
by Eli Sanders
Free Pie TONIGHT!
by Megan Seling
You Know What This Winter's Been Missing?
by David Schmader
What They Regret About Us
by Dominic Holden
The Quotable Bieber
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Amazon Drops Book About How to Become an Amazon Bestseller
by Paul Constant
Great West Coast Newspaper War Settled
by Eli Sanders
Three for 2011
by Charles Mudede
Bo Diddley Was Born 82 Years Ago Today
by Grant Brissey
Playing Bill Clinton
by Paul Constant
SL Letters of the Day: Grateful Readers/Listeners
by Dan Savage
Slade Gorton, Still Redistricting After All These Years
by Eli Sanders
Flickr Photo(s) of the Day
by Aaron Huffman
As Publishing Improves, Borders Keeps Digging a Hole
by Paul Constant
Bill Donahue! To the Batshit Mobile!
by Dan Savage
The Two Most Self-Defeating Things That Washington Voters Did in 2010
by Eli Sanders
It's Not Just Seattleites Who Freak Out on Their Mayor When the Streets Aren't Plowed
by Eli Sanders
How Political Was Picasso?
by Jen Graves
Washington State Is Not Like Most of America
by Eli Sanders
There Goes Health Care Reform?
by Paul Constant
Dept. of Ridiculousness: Everything Old Is New (and Stupid) Again
by Bethany Jean Clement
Iraq and the Ban of Toy Guns
by Charles Mudede
Who Doesn't Know
Frogger
?
by Paul Constant
Train Offers Revelers 38 Minutes More Drinky Time
by Dominic Holden
No More Drama for a Table Tennis Star
by Charles Mudede
The Art I Saw On My Winter Vacation
by Jen Graves
Seattle Partly Responsible for Ginned Up Yakkers' Talking Point: "The War on Cars"
by Dominic Holden
Gun-Crazy Country: The Boy Who Shot and Killed His Own Mother
by Charles Mudede
The Fun Forest: In Memoriam
by David Schmader
I Was Having a Shitty Day Until I Received This Text Message
by Lindy West
The True State of Capitalism
by Charles Mudede
A Private E-Book Lending Library
by Paul Constant
My Top Ten Films for 2010
by Charles Mudede
More Popular Than "God"
by Dan Savage
Color of the Year
by Mary P. Traverse
Shorter Michael Medved: Lesbians Make My Dick Hard...
by Dan Savage
Oh, Gay Paris
by Eli Sanders
John Boehner, Size Queen
by Dan Savage
Which Books Will Save You from a Bullet?
by Paul Constant
Stupid Budget Tricks, or Why Our State Government Can't Afford to Become Addicted to Gambling and Alcohol
by Goldy
State to Sign Tunnel Contract on Thursday
by Dominic Holden
We're #7!
by Aaron Huffman
Bill Would Allow Legal Pot Stores, Licensed Growers
by Dominic Holden
"Arsonists Posing as Firemen"
by Dan Savage
Park Talk Will Be Super Interesting in 2011, I Swear
by Cienna Madrid
Good Black People Deserve Good Chicken!
by Charles Mudede
Have You Read Paul Constant's Essay on How PR Departments Murdered the Interview?
by Lindy West
Prop 8 Ruling from 9th Circuit—Back to State Court, for Now
by Dominic Holden
Newsflash: God Is a Teabagger
by Paul Constant
The Morning News
: North Korea vs. South Korea, Facebook vs. Google, the Winter Classic vs. Rain, and You vs. 2011
by Megan Seling
This Cat Seems to Think It's an Otter
by Megan Seling
Flickr Photo of the Day
by Aaron Huffman
The Last Woman Standing
by Brendan Kiley
January Art Walk, Folksz
by Jen Graves
Shocker: Hollywood Had a "Dismal" 2010
by Paul Constant
Caperin': Derek Erdman Stops Making Sense and Starts Giving Relationship Advice!
by Grant Brissey
The Morning News
by Dominic Holden
The Morning News
by David Schmader
Goodbye Forever: Dead Restaurants 2010
by Bethany Jean Clement
Mayonnaise Drinks
by Lindy West
The Morning News
by David Schmader
Lunchtime Quickie: Can Someone Please Hire This Homeless Man
by Kelly O
SL Letter of the Day: A Quick Answer
by Dan Savage
Water Leak Closes Seattle Elementary School
by Riya Bhattacharjee
Borders Is Delaying Payments to Vendors
by Paul Constant
A Tea Bagger's Regret
by Eli Sanders
How Not to Kick Someone's Ass
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
When
Tron
Met Tourette Syndrome
by David Schmader
The Morning News
by David Schmader
Podcasts
Savage Love Episode 220
by Dan Savage
Suggests
Ramadanman
by Dave Segal
'A Fire in My Belly'
by Jen Graves
Chungee's Drink 'n Eat
by Brendan Kiley
Nine Nation Animation
by Paul Constant
'The Room'
by Lindy West
Dick's Burgers for Luck
by Paul Constant
'Tiny Furniture'
by Lindy West
Neurosis, Wolves in the Throne Room, Black Breath
by GRANT BRISSEY | BRENDAN KILEY
Regrets
We Regret These Errors
A Year of Blatant Inaccuracies, Stunning Lapses, Errors, and Obvious Oversights
by Stranger Staff
I Regret Those Girls in Roslyn
(I Mean, Fer Fuck's Sake!)
by the Last Remaining Can of Watermelon Four Loko
I Regret Nothing
(Except My Chaffed Genitals—That's Just Irritating)
by State Supreme Court Justice Richard B. Sanders
What You Think About When You Think About Chile
(You're Thinking of the Trapped Miners, I Can Tell! Stop It!)
by the Republic of Chile
A Guide to the Jokes in This Issue for the Staff of Gawker
(Because Gawker Had Trouble Keeping Up with Our Jokes This Year)
by Stranger Staff
Hands Off My Leeks
I'm Just Trying to Make a Living Over Here
by Henry Earl Wicky, farmer and proprietor of WickyLeeks